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Tom Abbott
Graduated in Psychology and Art History from Carleton College, Minnesota and studied at the Louvre School of Art History in Paris—moved to Berlin in 1987—a specialist in architectural history from the Baroque to the 20th century with a wide knowledge of the performing arts—in recent years has organised and led many highly-acclaimed academic tours in Berlin.
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Berlin: New Architecture
MU 950
Berlin at Christmas
MV 191
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Madeleine Adams
Practising architect and co-director of architecture and design practice Research Design, who are currently converting the Grade 1 listed Boone’s Chapel in Lewisham—her practice principally builds contemporary museums, galleries, and houses and often works on listed buildings—writes and lectures on housing and urbanism, at the universities of Cambridge, the West of England, East London, and University College London—read architecture at the Architectural Association.
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Dutch Modern
MU 971
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Saeed Alizadeh
A native of Tehran—professional translator and interpreter who studied in London and has taught English for ten years—a lecturer on the history, art, architecture, religion and cultural traditions of Iran for many years—co-author of Iran: A Chronological History—qualified national guide who has worked with MRT since 2001.
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Persia
MV 141
Persia (1)
MW 433
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Maureen Ashley
Graduated with a 1st Class Honours degree in Mathematics and an overwhelming desire to leave academia—her interest in wine grew inexorably and she took up a lowly role in the wine business—gained Master of Wine in 1984 and started to specialise in the wines of Italy—two years later she became a freelance writer and tutor, adding four books, all on Italian wines, to her numerous articles for the trade and public—in 1996 she was awarded the honour of Cavaliere al Merito delle Repubblica Italiana by the Italian Government in recognition of her work in spreading knowledge and understanding of Italian wine—she now lives and works in Rome.
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Professor John Barron
Director of the University of London’s Institute of Classical Studies from 1984 to 1991 and subsequently Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford. He has published widely on the history, art and culture of Classical and later Greece and travelled a great deal in the region.
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Classical Civilizations
CV 154
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Dr Rosamund Bartlett
Writer, lecturer and translator specializing in Russian cultural history, literature and music—books include Wagner and Russia, Shostakovich in Context, Chekhov: Scenes from a Life and Literary Russia: A Guide—has taught at universities in the UK and the United States and led tours throughout Eastern Europe—currently completing a new translation of Anna Karenina, editing the Cambridge Companion to Russian Music, and writing a cultural history of opera in Russia.
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St Petersburg & Moscow (1)
MV 133
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Dr Paul Bennett
Archaeologist and Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies, Paul Bennett knows the sites of Libya and Tunisia extremely well. He is also Director of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust.
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The Romans in Africa
CV 140
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Dr Amira Bennison
Currently senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge—gained her doctorate in Moroccan history from the School of Oriental and African Studies—publications include Jihad and its Interpretations in Precolonial Morocco, and numerous articles on the culture, society and politics of Islamic Spain and Morocco—has travelled extensively in north Africa and the Middle East as a lecturer and researcher.
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Professor Martin Biddle OBE FBA
One of the most eminent of British archaeologists, Martin Biddle is Professor of Mediaeval Archaeology at the University of Oxford. He has excavated at many sites in Britain and the Middle East and his long and varied career included a period in charge of excavations at Cyrene. He is well known as a lecturer, on land and afloat.
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The Romans in Africa
CV 140
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Professor Jeremy Black
Educated at Cambridge and Oxford and formerly Professor of History at Durham, he now has the chair at Exeter. He has written nearly seventy books, mainly on Britain and Europe in the 18th century, including The British and the Grand Tour (1985), Europe in the Eighteenth Century (1990), France and the Grand Tour (2003) and The British Seaborne Empire (2004).
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In Pursuit of Caravaggio
CV 132
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Professor Tim Blanning
Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Fellow of the British Academy—books include The French Revolution in Germany, Joseph II, The French Revolutionary Wars and the award-winning The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture—general editor of The Oxford History of Modern Europe and The Short Oxford History of Europe—his course of lectures on Wagner and German culture received an award for excellence.
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The Danube Music Festival
MU 999
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Julia Boadle
Art historian and freelance writer—read languages (French, Spanish, Italian) at Kings College, London and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she received her MA and is currently undertaking doctoral research on Byzantine and pre-Renaissance bilateral painted panels—specialist in Byzantium, the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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The Art History of Venice
MV 179
The Heart of Italy
MW 415
Florence
MW 479
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Dr Flavio Boggi
Art historian specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque-—received his PhD from Glasgow University after studying art history at Rome, Florence and Pisa and now lectures at University College, Cork, where he set up the art history programme—has contributed on Italian art and architecture to journals, dictionaries of art and exhibition catalogues.
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Lucca
MV 254
Florence at Christmas
MV 199
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Monica Bohm-Duchen
Independent lecturer, writer and curator specialising in twentieth-century art. Studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before graduating in English Literature and History of Art from University College London and with an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute. She has lectured for the National Gallery, Tate, Royal Academy, Courtauld Institute, Sotheby’s and Birkbeck College. Her many publications include Chagall (Phaidon 1998/2001) and The Private Life of a Masterpiece (BBC Worldwide 2001).
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Art on The Cóte D'Azur
MV 165
The Matisse Cruise
CV260
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Catherine Bott
Soprano who studied at the Guildhall—recognised as a virtuoso of early music: among her many recordings in this field are Bach’s St John Passion with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppaea with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Academy of Ancient Music—she has also premiered and recorded works by contemporary composers Jonathan Dove, Michael Nyman and Bo Holten—her latest recital CD on Hyperion is the cabaret London Pride, with pianist David Owen Norris—she presents The Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3 and is a regular contributor to R4’s Saturday Review.
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Professor Trevor Bryce
Classicist and ancient Near Eastern historian who has published extensively on the Classical and Near Eastern worlds—his most recent publications are The Kingdom of the Hittites (new edition) and The Trojans and their Neighbours, which includes a discussion on the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations—Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has held visiting Fellowships at Princeton, Oxford and Canberra—his university career has included appointments as Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Australia and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Lincoln University, NZ.
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Classical Turkey
MV 278
Classical Greece
MV 142
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Sandy Burnett
Broadcaster, conductor and performer—presents regularly on BBC Radio 3 and has worked as musical director for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre—has conducted several choirs and is currently masterminding a complete cycle of Bach’s surviving sacred cantatas in west London—obtained his MA in Music from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
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The Leipzig Bach Festival
MU 942
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Sir Michael Burton
Graduate of PPE, Oxford, and an Arabic, German and French speaker—retired from the Diplomatic Service where his posts included inter alia HM Ambassador to the Czech Republic (1994–97), Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, for the Middle and Near East (1993–94), Kuwait (1997–99), Jordan (1995–97) and Assistant Political Agent in Dubai (1962–64)—he served as the last British Minister in Berlin during the fall of the Wall and represented the UK in Berlin and the former GDR for two years thereafter.
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Caravan Cities
MV 158
Essential Syria
MW 439
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Polly Buston
Followed an MA in French with English at Edinburgh University with an MA at the Courtauld Institute—freelance lecturer at the Courtauld Summer School—works for art history publishers as editor and picture researcher, and was co-author of Titian’s Venice, a multi-media project accompanying the 2003 National Gallery Titian exhibition.
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Crivelli and Lotto
EU 927
The Art History of Venice (1)
MV 235
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